Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

Leo Tolstoy

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

Leo Tolstoy

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

Leo Tolstoy

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Leo Tolstoy

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

Leo Tolstoy

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Leo Tolstoy

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Leo Tolstoy

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Leo Tolstoy

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Leo Tolstoy

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Leo Tolstoy

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Peter L. Berger

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

Peter Kreeft

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Peter Kreeft

But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.

Peter Kreeft

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Peter Kreeft

There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

Peter Kreeft

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Peter Kreeft

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Peter Kreeft

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

Peter Kreeft

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Peter Kreeft

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Peter Kreeft

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Peter Kreeft

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.